I would like to give everybody a briefing from the Mexican boarder the two close to my home have closed and rumor has it that they will open soon, however they are a min. of 5 officers that will be inspecting all cars comming into our country.
I have friends in New York and all I can say is Thank God for the internet! I hope everybody is safe and your families are well.
Mara

I certainly don't mean this to digress at all from the words of concern being expressed for those directly affected by today's cowardly acts.  My own son works only a couple of miles from the Pentagon, & his wife works in the West Wing of the White House.  I cannot imagine the depth of the grief I would feel if anything had happened to them, so my sympathy also goes out to all those who lost anyone close to them.

But I too thought of Pearl Harbor when I heard this news.  The Japanese Admiral Yamamoto who planned that attack is supposed to have done so somewhat reluctantly & only because he was under orders.  In the aftermath, amid all the accodlades he was receiving for the success, he said "I fear we have awakened a slumbering giant."  History certainly proved him right.  

Does this current generation of Americans have the same kind of resolve, or have we somehow become too soft as many of our enemies want to believe??  I would hope we aren't soft at all, & that public opinion demands truly appropritate action & not something merely done for show.  If this is not the last straw I shudder to think what it will take to jolt us enough that we start doing something!